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• What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

  Nikki Giovanni

  Gay, Men, Boys

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• I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.

  Frank Iero

  Mad, Band, Hybridity

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• America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

  Phil Ochs

  Two, America, Amphetamines

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

  Howard Dean

  Guy, Flags, Want

  "Dems battle over Confederate flag". Des Moines Register Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.

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• I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I'm going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don't have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too.

  Howard Dean

  School, Kids, Race

  "Southern Exposure". www.motherjones.com. November 10, 2003.

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• Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

  Mark Driscoll

  Dog, Jesus, Kings

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• I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

  S. J. Perelman

  Running, Food, Apples

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• You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks. Sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they pass each other on the highway... I don't understand that. I mean, if they need logs over there... and they need 'em over there, you'd think a phone call would save 'em a whole lot of trouble.

  Brian Regan

  Mean, Thinking, Phones

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Almost Perfect, Two

  Gene Wolfe (1995). “Castle of Days”, p.221, Macmillan

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• My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.

  Mark Martin

  Thinking, Race, Years

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• The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

  Robert Fisk

  Mean, Thinking, Cities

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• In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Party, Class

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

  Greta Van Susteren

  People, Bombs, Free Society

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• I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

  John Romero

  Country, Way

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• In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.

  Joel Salatin

  Running, Country, Tunnels

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• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  Jackie Mason

  Running, Humor, Apology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Research, Littles, Lists

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• I'm technologically challenged, so I finally hooked up Bluetooth in my truck so I can talk going down the road.

  Kurt Busch

  Bluetooth, Hooked, Down The Road

  "Team Chevy Daytona pre-season test teleconference: Kurt Busch". www.motorsport.com. January 13, 2012.

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• Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.

  Joseph Pilates

  Horse, Heart, Cat

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• [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

  Alec Baldwin

  Night, Lawyer, Cry

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• Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, “I planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Senior, Running, Responsibility

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck - which I do - and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window.

  Billy Carter

  Beer, Redneck, Boys

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• I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

  Delta Burke

  Heart, Fire, Special

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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